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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400051" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>War poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They who do not themselves fight the battle, <br>who err as mere humans<br>has got the power to call up boys<br>with innocent noble ideals<br>and dreams<br>to change their lives radically, <br>in their humanity, in their existence<br>and to change from alive and well<br>to dead and wounded</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then every white young man was forced<br>to go to jail<br>or to conceded to duty for the country<br>and to defend the place of unrighteousness<br>against something much worse, something more evil and grievous</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and what poet has got the ability<br>to show the way<br>to the instigators of war? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In our human haste we only see<br>small parts of the much bigger whole, <br>not how every thing, every facet<br>of struggle of life playing off here fits into it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and to me a pen is given<br>to write only what I experience, <br>how I meet with it<br>and even at times I am far too near to the battle<br>am blinded, blinded by national pride<br>and self conceit, to look further than my own existence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and moral values, <br>that which are actually right and noble, <br>are only determined by God<br>who with great justice sit on His throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my war poems, experiences<br>of noble young men are expressed<br>who were forced to stand, <br>had to kill others to stay alive, <br>without any other choice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who revealed heroism<br>but was not compensated for it, <br>who was true and faithful to their task, <br>although they did not view it as noble<br>respectable or good<br>and some even gave their lives<br>as sacrifices, for all the people of their country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: The hand that signed the paper by Dylan Thomas, Where are the War Poets? by C. Day Lewis, War Poet by Sidney Keyes, On Being Asked for a War Poem by W.B. Yeats en War Poet by Donald Bain.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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to change their lives radically, 
in their humanity, in their existence
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